akhayam

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by akhayam 3y ago
Yes, yes. How did I forget this one? Thanks for calling it out. Wish we had more MS theses today that at least attempted something as ambitious as this one, instead of just checking a box :(
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by akhayam 3y ago
It's incredible how Shannon published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", while actually working on the "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems": https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/642-sprin
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by akhayam 3y ago
I have been waiting for an AI powered tutor to teach my ~10 yr old coding and writing, so this just made my day. Sal Khan and his team are incredible and I can't wait to start trying out Khan Amigo.
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Yellen: US could default on debt as soon as June 1(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by akhayam 3y ago|0 comments
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by akhayam 3y ago
I posted this question without an opinion because I have a strong bias that it doesn’t matter when you start coding in your youth. I had no access to computing until I was in 11th grade. I feel that it helped me build better mental models b
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by akhayam 3y ago
Nah... Mendable seems to be searching in documentation. This idea is to extract an execution model of every component in your system from the logs of that component. We can think of the prediction step as a complete separate machine model f
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by akhayam 3y ago
Sounds cool, but how is this different from Colly: https://github.com/gocolly/colly ?
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Ask HN: Is "At which age did you start coding?” a good data point for hiring?
29 points by akhayam 3y ago|84 comments
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by akhayam 3y ago
I am not advocating to remove the foundations. My stance is that it shouldn’t be the first exposure to programming. I am all for covering foundations in later courses.
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by akhayam 3y ago
I agree that languages close to hardware are the wrong starting point to introduce a newbie to programming. And I see a change happening already—e.g. Stanford changing the introductory programming course to JavaScript in 2017: https:/
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by akhayam 3y ago
Wow... that was quick. Would love to see what results you get.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Great to see Amazon opening and office in Iasi. I had my Frontend team there in my past life and it was top tier talent. Would strongly recommend this little known jewel to anyone who is considering an offshore office. Not as cheap as some
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by akhayam 3y ago
Seriously… “reset the drive” is still a thing?
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by akhayam 3y ago
“Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?” https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds This was such a great read and took me back to the days when you had to figure out the rig
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by akhayam 3y ago
Gotcha! That makes sense. I would recommend looking at LangChain though, as it does a good job at modeling multi-stage learning / inference environments.
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by akhayam 3y ago
I believe AWS struck the right balance to "Think Big" and not worry about minutiae at the beginning, while tightening the belt and ensuring costs are not out of control at later stages. One of my teams was given the charter to map
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by akhayam 3y ago
It should exist and would be super powerful considering all the recent advancements in language ML. Here was the mental model of my model: the canonical representation (i.e. a representation after taking out run-time populated fields) of a
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by akhayam 3y ago
Don't think I quite follow. Is the new program (operating on the output of the earlier program) supposed to reason about why you are seeing the result that you are seeing? Or is it doing more post processing to make the earlier output
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by akhayam 3y ago
About 8 years back, I was leading an engineering team which was the escalation path for customer support. We were sitting on a large corpus of support tickets but didn't have any insights. I was amazed when word2vec came out and blew m
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by akhayam 3y ago
Yes, there seems to be a design flaw here. There should be no SPOF in region design.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Water intrusion? Is it raining a lot in Paris?
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by akhayam 3y ago
Etcd is what holds k8s together. I saw the concept of watchers evolve from what-used-to-considered a fringe use case to something so fundamental and powerful in k8s. The only issue is that its usage best practices are not followed. Most use
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by akhayam 3y ago
It’s slowed down for sure since COVID. Having said that, RSA is happening in SF and is heavily attended right now. There was also a huge meet up around Generative AI a couple of months back: https://sfstandard.com/technology
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by akhayam 3y ago
This appears to be introducing a math prerequisite for graduation. Not sure if there is anything deeper though?
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by akhayam 3y ago
Step in the right direction, but guidance alone won’t cut it. We need stricter enforcement of these guidelines as well. Not sure if that’s the VC’s job though.
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‘The miracle that disrupts order’: mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape(theguardian.com)
2 points by akhayam 3y ago|0 comments
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by akhayam 3y ago
“AWS cloud unit was generating operating profits of more than $2 billion a quarter when at a similar revenue level.” I was at AWS when this was unfolding and cost was never an afterthought. I also felt that the best way to control costs is
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by akhayam 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clarifying. Hope my questions help you in making an sharper elevator pitch to customers.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Hmmm… I guess this puts Code Preview in the Netlify / Vercel camp… although those projects are richer in their feature sets around deployment tooling. Is that a fair comparison?
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by akhayam 3y ago
Agree that you are not behind. Having said that, I am generally a believer of the "10K hours rule" to get really really good at something: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4662388/ . So y

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